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Do you know of Great Valley Centre ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Great Valley Centre. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Great Valley Centre.

Our sources for Great Valley Centre (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Great Valley Centre other than they indicate that Great Valley Centre would be found somewhere in Cattaraugus County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1876 and closed  in 1879.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Great Valley Centre ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Great Valley Centre:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Great Valley Centre - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned

More Orphans in  Cattaraugus County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Cattaraugus County.

Anybody's 
Ashford StationLake
AustinLeek
 Lime Lake - Machias
Banks 
Bay StateMaine
BucktoothMaltbie Heights
BurtonMansfield
  
Conewango StationOnoville Station
Crystal Lake 
 Pine Valley
Deer Lick 
Devereux StationRawson
 Remington
East AshfordRice
East SalamancaRiverside Park
ElkRussells
English Brook 
 Sillimans Corners
Farmersville CenterSteam Valley
Fish LakeStevens
The ForksSummit
  
Gordon'sTunungwant Mills
  
HideckerWest Hinsdale
Howlett'sWest Salamanca
HoytsWest
 West Yorkshire
JohnsonsWeston's
  
Knapp's CreekYorkshire Center

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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